Re: [idn] draft about Tradition and Simplified Chinese Conversion[version01]

["xiang deng" <deng@cnnic.net.cn>]

Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:55 AM,liana Ye wrote:

> James,
> 
>   I think I am repeating myself, but this may be from a little 
> different angle.  The SC is collected and derived from at 
> least from two thousand years ago, appeared mostly as 
> hand writings of many top scholars at first, and some do 
> appeare on monuments.  They are officially adopted by 
> Kanji, and later followed by PRC in the year of 
> 1956, 1964 and 1986, all with the same character set.  

Japan first begin to simplified the Kanji characters.
PRC follow the trend and make a big step to simplified the 
Chinese characters.Over forty years' practice has proved that 
this simplification has greatly promoted the spread and the 
standardization of Chinese characters

> Many people with appreciation of Chinese can not
> drop into it quickly, even myself.  So there are methods to
> ease this by creating tools to help.  One of these tools is
> the TC and SC comparison dictionary you have mentioned
> before, which I was stunned by it's popularity in the book 
> store in the States twenty years ago, I have questioned 
> why anybody wants it at all since it has not present 
> Chinese script correctly.  And I have to swallen that fact 
> and trying to understand that how hard the oversea Chinese 
> have been trying to preserv that rich culture that I have little 
> knowledge about due to my limited formal education 
> opportunity.

It is the progressive trend of history. Who just hold old things,
he will be abandoned by history. Old history will not be change by
the reform, it'll be preserved for future development.

> Even I don't fully understand why people so dear with Han 
> characters, I study it as it is, but not using a Standard to rule
> it out.  

Han character is fostered in China, but it's the part of 
international culture. Now, it isn't just belong to China, 
it is belong to the world. The IDN is the same. Han characters 
is the part of IDN. 

>After all, North Korean and Vietnamese who have 
> abandoned them long time ago, now want them back. 

It meets the requirement of international communication.

> The SC standard, (Note: from the Han title, it is only a table,
> but I have to translate this term to point out its validity, )
> overrides any international standards whichever not 
> follows it sincerely.  It is the law of Chinese script.  Of 
> course there are always "unlawful" use of the script, so 
> there are script law enforcement who patrols the law in 
> China, which can be well criticized by "freedom of expression" 
> group.   Dictionaries are only implementations of this law, 
> all they shown are how conmitted the people in China 
> following the law.

We all follow it, because it is the tool to communicate with
each other. 
 
regards
Deng xiang